Betty Smith Quotes

I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

Betty Smith

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• Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Important
  • Religious

• The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • People
  • Winning
  • Thought

• I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Know
  • Car
  • Everyone

• Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.

  

  Zendaya
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Remember

• One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Important
  • Roles
  • Most

• I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Believe
  • Love
  • End

• High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • School
  • American
  • High

• There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Sports

• If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Music
  • Today
  • Moving

• A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Health
  • Care
  • Modern

• The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Me
  • Difference

• I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Work
  • School
  • Team

• I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Children
  • Walking

• The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Power
  • Always
  • Influence

• I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Head
  • Fix
  • Quick

• One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Road

• I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Different
  • Business
  • Think

• Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Thought
  • Better

• I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Art
  • Soul

• I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Up
  • Want
  • Best

• Generally, I don't pencil, especially with the autobiographical comics, although I've usually planed out composition in my head during the scripting stage. I like to work directly in ink, to keep the spontaneity and expression conveyed by a less worked over line.

  

  Jeffrey Brown
  • Work

• I like to make sculpture because it makes my life social. When I make drawings, I work alone. When I work with sculpture I have someone I can work with.

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Life
  • Like
  • Social

• I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Live
  • Want
  • Giving